Wikileaks founder Julian Assange will plead guilty to a felony charge under the Espionage Act, in a plea deal that will allow him to get out of prison and end a years-long legal saga stemming from his role at one of the world’s biggest publications. of classified information in U.S. history, according to court documents filed Monday.
Assange will plead guilty to conspiring to illegally obtain and disclose national defense information under the plea deal, which must still be approved by a judge.
Assange is scheduled to appear in federal court in the Mariana Islands, a U.S. community in the Western Pacific, the Associated Press reported. Assange has spent the last five years in a British prison.
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